The Debt Collector

There was one thing that Chen Sheng knew for certain - the only person who could help him was Zhang Guoliang. As his former boss, Chen Sheng would simply ask him to enter the house of a businessman who owed him money and request the full sum. It was not extortion, it was not a robbery, it was just debt-collection. At least that's what Chen Sheng told himself until he opened the Rezhou Informer the morning after his plan's execution. The front page of the paper told a different story, and there was no one else Chen Sheng could call on now.

Wang Shou is a contemporary Chinese writer who began his work in the 1980s. He has written many well-received novels, including Short Message of One Year of Life, Debt Collection, Song of My Car, Personal Man, Death of Simon and others. Wang Shou is currently based in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province.
Soon after graduating from the University of Vermont with a Bachelor's degree, Fred Franz set off for China to begin his studies of the Chinese language. Since then he has been studying and working in China in a variety of roles on and off for almost 40 years now. He was born and raised in New York City, but now considers Colorado his spiritual home and lives there during most of the year.